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« on: July 25, 2007, 09:06:04 AM » |
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Hi guys, can anyone help me, took the trike out yesterday, noticed the coil gets very hot, should it do this? I noticed a reliant trike at calne the other day had a white ceramic block in the wiring to the coil, any idea's
Cheers Mick.
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 11:38:26 AM » |
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Hi Mickey,
The white ceramic doofer's a ballast resistor.
Reliants operate on a 9 volt system with the full 12 volts for starting. So there's an inline resistor that cuts the 12 volts from the coil down to 9 once the engine's started.
None of our trikes had them -mainly cos we didn't know about them. A couple of guys had problems with the points burning out after long high speed runs. Resistors fitted, no more problems. Your coil's probably getting hot cos it can't discharge all the energy it's producing. Fit a ballast doofer.
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2007, 04:59:12 PM » |
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Top man, thanks M/M I'll get one on order.
Cheers
Mick.
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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2007, 05:05:27 PM » |
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Don't forget it discharges the extra energy in the form of heat, so make sure you put it somewhere in the airflow.  |
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2007, 11:58:50 PM » |
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Cheers mate, got one tonight on the old ebay, I'll bolt it directly to the coil, sticks out about as far as anything else. Ta for your help again.
Mick.
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2007, 09:52:47 AM » |
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From an online shop on Ebay? I've got to get one for my own build at some point. How much did it cost you, if you don't mind me asking?
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« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2007, 02:06:40 AM » |
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Hi M/M I paid £8.50, cured the problem, coils nice and cool, thanks for the help.
Sellers name was sportscarsupplies, just do an advanced search.
Cheers
Mick.
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« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2007, 10:20:17 AM » |
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If you can find out the resistor Value in OHM's and watts dissipated then you could probably get one from maplin's or RS.
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« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2007, 11:38:52 AM » |
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Info noted for future use. Thanks chaps.
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« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2007, 02:19:14 PM » |
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E.A.S sell them.
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